Clothes-pin.



G. E. DEVURE.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED H38. 1, 1910.

Patented June 7, 1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT E;

GEORGEIELLSWORTH DEVORE, ormomrme son, IOWA;

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Specification ofLettersPatent. June '7, 1910.

Application fl led rebraiiii, 191a. Serial no. 541,386,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,- Gnoncn E. Devonn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mornim Sun, in the connty of Louisa and State a? Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins,

viding means whereby the pin can'be opened by grasping between the fingers of one hand so that itean be readily inserted.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 having their lower ends curved out of the loop as indicated at 16 and 17.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that by the compound curvesjof the loop and arms interlocking gives a greater holding surfacemliich prevents the pin from be'in displaced fromthe line after being applie Byjcompre's'sm --the-portionsl9-.andso0 12, between th'e'ithum ndfforednger' the lower ends of the arms and 100 are moved outwardlyjrom their interloc 'edposition so. that the same can be. readily inserted, as

clearly shown inFig; 2. This also allows 65 of the ready removal of pin without any injury to the clothes. V

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim'and desireto secure by Letters Pat-- entis:

1. A- clothes pin c'omprisihga piece of t wire having an oval loop formedtherein intermediate the ends, and terminatin in .7..j oppositelyarranged coils, anditlw on s of" the. coils terminating im armscrossin the 7 5 loop on the outside and curved 'aroun and r is a perspective view of a clothes line showing my improved clothes pin appl1ed.- Fig.

21s a side elevation showing the pin in the act of being applied. Fig. 3 is a sideeleva tion of the pin, and Fig. 4 is anend view ext-ending Witl\in tl1e10P- V of the pin. 2.- A clothes pin comprising a. piece of in proved clpthes pin,'as hg 'etofore Wll'e having an oval 160p formed therein Stated is mad, f a single i f wire, intermediate the end and the wires extend- 80 which is double in the middlmforming a loop 1, which has its lower end bent or flared outwardly asindicated at 2, to provide means whereby the pin is more readily applied. M preferably of an oval form having the two wires 3 and 4 forming the same, bent or drawn inwardly and extending upwardly The wires are out or provided with the compound curved portions 5 and (i, and ending in the coils 7 .and 8.

The wires 3 and 4, adjacent the coils, are parallel, as heretofore stated, and are bulged outwardly as indicated at 9,

Fig. 3, the purpose of which will be hereinafter more fully described. The rolls 7: and 8 are oppositely arranged and ternnna'te in .the arms 10 and 11, and are bulged outwardly as UltllCt'llOd at 12 to correspond with The said arms exthe bulged portion 9. tend downwardly on the outside of the portions 3 and 40f the loop and curved portion 13 extending across wires 3 and 4. and ex tending into the loop 1, at '14 and 15, and

The said loop in side elevation is.

ing close together and coiled outwardly and said coils arranged opposite, and the endsterminating in curved arms crossing the upper end of the loop and having an intermediato curved portion extending into the 1oop. 85'

3. A clothes )in comprising a piece of ,wire having a l mediate its endsand haVi'iig-a compound curve. and the upper ends"-'of the wire ter- 'minating 1n coils, the wire startingfrom* the outside of the coils to formthe'curved portion 12. and the ends of the wire having the coil from the outside and crossing the upper end of the loop' and drawn in toward each other and having an intermediate curved portion extending into the loop and having the ends terminating outside the loop.-

In testimony whereof T hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE EhhSWORTll DEVOREL, Witnesses: 1

Finn) COURTS, S. MCCLELLAN. f

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